The effectiveness of massage and touch on behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: a quantitative systematic review and meta-analysis
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BACKGROUND: Many original studies have explored the effectiveness of massage and touch on behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. However, the study design, interventions, measurements and outcomes varied among studies. AIM: To systematically evaluate the effectiveness of massage and touch on the behavioural and psychological symptoms of older people with dementia. DESIGN: A quantitative systematic review and meta-analysis. DATA SOURCES: Cochrane Library, The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Library, PubMed, CINAHL, ProQuest Health & Medical Complete, SinoMed, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and Wanfang were searched from the date the database established to January 2016. REVIEW METHODS: Randomized, controlled trials or quasi-experimental studies, involving massage and touch intervention for older people with dementia were considered to be included. Risk of bias assessment was performed using the Cochrane Collaboration's tool and meta-analysis was performed using Revman 5.3. RESULTS: A total of 11 studies, involving 526 older people were included. The results of the meta-analysis showed the total score of behavioural and psychological problems with older people with dementia and subgroup scores of physical aggressive behaviour, physical non-aggressive behaviour, verbal aggressive behaviour and verbal non-aggressive behaviour decreased significantly after receiving massage or touch, while the subgroups scores of anxiety, sadness and anger did not decreased significantly. CONCLUSIONS: Due to relatively small sample size and low quality of the included studies in this review, it is difficult to draw a conclusion on the effect of massage and touch on behavioural and psychological syndrome of dementia or implications for practice.
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Massage and touch interventions may have a significant effect on physical non-aggressive, verbal aggressive and non-aggressive behavior.
“A recent meta-analysis of 11 RCTs showed that massage and touch interventions may have significant effect on physical non-aggressive, verbal aggressive and non-aggressive behavior, but the relatively small sample size and the low quality of the included studies do not allow to draw a firm conclusion on the effect on BPSD or any useful suggestion for clinical practice (253).”
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- Authors
- Wu, J., Wang, Y., & Wang, Z.
- Affiliations
- Peking University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Wang, Zhiwen
- Venue
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2017-05-19
- Volume
- 73
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 2283-2295
- ISSN
- 0309-2402 (ISSN-L)
- 1365-2648
- OpenAlex
- W2604737698
- Cited by
- 62
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 7
- FWCI
- 1.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Advanced Nursing (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- MOE Ministry of Education Project of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Youth Fund (NO.13YJCZH190)
- Nursing Research Fund of Peking University Health Science Centre (BMU20160522)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Pharmacy › Nursing care and research
- Keywords
- massage, touch therapy, behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia, dementia, older adults, physical aggression, verbal aggression, anxiety, anger, sadness
- MeSH terms
- Dementia, Humans, Massage, Touch, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
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Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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